Grief and Loss in the LGBTQIA+ Experience
📅 Tuesday 14 October 2025 | 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM BST | 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free to attend
Grief is often seen as a private experience—but for LGBTQIA+ people, it can also be deeply collective, structural, and shaped by identity. In this important session, we’ll explore the distinct ways grief and loss impact LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities—and how workplaces can better recognise, support, and respond.
We’ll begin with a grounding in the emotional and psychological dimensions of grief before focusing on how these experiences show up—often invisibly—for LGBTQIA+ colleagues and clients. We’ll also examine how organisations can create inclusive, affirming responses that go beyond standard employee wellbeing offers.
✨ Attendees will gain:
A clear understanding of the core dimensions of grief and loss
Insight into how grief may uniquely affect LGBTQIA+ people and communities
Practical tools to support inclusive grief responses in the workplace
Considerations for embedding LGBTQIA+-affirming practitioners within your wellbeing strategy
This session is designed for HR professionals at every level—from advisors to CPOs—who want to build more responsive and compassionate workplaces. Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+ or as an ally, you’ll leave with greater awareness, deeper empathy, and the tools to lead with care.
🎤 Meet the Speakers
Dr Jed Jerwood (he/him)
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor and Advanced Clinical Academic Art Psychotherapist
Dr Jed Jerwood works in adult mental health services in Birmingham and teaches at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on health inequalities, death, dying and bereavement, and arts-based methods in healthcare. He co-founded the award-winning No Barriers Here programme—an arts-based approach to inclusive advance care planning.
Cass Humphries-Massey (they/them)
Founder and Thanatologist, Navigating the Wilderness CIC
Cass is a grief equity advocate and national voice on grief literacy. Their work focuses on grief at the margins—LGBTQIA+ loss, racialised grief, disability, neurodivergence, and organisational endings. Through Navigating the Wilderness, they work to embed visibility and justice into grief support across communities, workplaces, and systems.
👉 Registration is free, but spaces are limited. Reserve your place today.